Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

- Seneca

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David